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Richard Strauss was just 20 when he composed his Suite – and steeped in the conservative musical traditions of his horn-player father, who revered Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven above all. It’s a legacy present here in the young Strauss’s music, but developed and transformed into something altogether more rich and strange.

Clarinettist Michael Collins and his ensemble London Winds set Strauss and his favourite composer, Mozart, side by side, presenting their very different takes on the 18th-century ‘Harmonie’ ensemble of wind instruments, and revealing the early seeds of Strauss’s signature lyricism that would eventually flower in Der Rosenkavalier.

Leading period-instrument ensemble Les Arts Florissants launches the Proms Chamber Music series with the first of its two Proms appearances marking 250 years since the death of Jean-Philippe Rameau....

The first Greek orchestra ever to appear at the Proms presents a programme appropriately inspired by Greek myths. Furies rage, sons defy their fathers and heroines bewail their fate in what promises...